Modern AI systems act silently. An agent executes a payment, files a form, or sends a communication and there is no cryptographic record that a human approved that specific action at that specific moment.
This is not merely a technical gap. It is the gap the EU AI Act was written to close. As the number of deployed AI agents grows toward billions — and eventually toward the "trillions of agents" scale researchers project for European SMEs alone the accountability gap compounds. Without a standard consent protocol, every agent is an unverified actor, and every action it takes is a potential compliance exposure AT1C Protocol